How to Know if You’re Helping Your Child Maximize Their Potential

Potential is having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future. Potential implies possibility.  It also implies the existence of undone work. To know if you’re helping your child maximize their potential you must know what undone work your child must complete. To identify this work, I like to use the […]

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Raising an Athlete with Million-Dollar Dreams and Five-Dollar Habits

Being a sports parent is fun. However, it can be rather frustrating if your child has dreams to play in college, go to the Olympics, or go pro but doesn’t show the work ethic to back this up. I call this having million-dollar dreams with five-dollar habits. As a parent, you can’t help but to […]

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Six Tips for Sports Parents Who Have Goldilocks Anxiety

The process of trying to get it “just right” for your kid is a legitimate source of anxiety. I call this type of anxiety “Goldilocks” anxiety. For example, one day you may worry that you’re being too hard on your kids. Then, a few days later you worry that you’re being too soft on them. […]

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